Wichita eagle., 1887-07-21
RAMBLEs ABOUT EUROPE.
From England to Egypt Especially for
the Eagle.
NO. III.


whilst we are enjoying the cool sea breez'
of this delightful and healthy resort "
have not sought the salubrity of this Fl
vored climate to escape the smoke or he,
of London, but to take under our wing fo
| a day or two before departing for the Cor
tinent our little fond Charlie, whom littl
more than three weeks ago we placed 1
one of the excellent boarding schools 70
boys in which this place abounds. I hav
no knowledge of any similar institution TO
mall beys in Cur own state, and If / ente
into somewhae detailed description o
Montague House school l strust
will be of sufficient interest to mel
| it at least hearty perusal
The building is of four stories, connected
with row of similar design, situated with
in one block of the sea, whose hoarse mur
merings can be heard as the tide rolls il
and dashes its spray against the rocks tina
line the coast full eighty fleets beneath tn.
Lecs-which the handsome promenade i.
called, which lies between the city and the
beach. The prospectus of the school al
luded to, states that it receives and pre-
pares sons of gentlemen for the public
schools, the civil and military competitive
examinations and the universities. Partic
ular attention is given to delicate and back.
ward boys, and special arrangements are
made for the reception of pupils from
abroad" The house arrangements aside
from the class rooms are a library and
reading room, large refectory, play
room for wet weather, thirty well appoint:
ed bed rooms, three bath rooms, ETC. The
domestic arrangements under the
personal supervision of ladies are
as follows: Breakfast at a. M,
co nsisting of ham, eggs, etc, with tea and
COCO. Lunch at II a. M, tartine, Charlie
says that means bread and butter) dinner
at 1:15 p. m, joints, buildings, ETC., with
desert on Sunday. Tea at $50 p. H.. sup,
per at s p. m. Tartine again.
The special features of the school are
these, aside from the curriculum: No
corporal punishment. An enclosed cricket
and football field; lawn tennis ground; a
sea water swimming bath; attendance at
the military gymnasium; a workshop; a
pro perly constructed place for boys pets;
8 bicycle and tricycle. shed; horses and po-
MOS for riding; printing Office and mu-
scum. 1t is required that each pupil be
provided with one eton suit, this consists of
silk "stovepipe' nat, black jacket, vest
s..nd long trouses, broad, white, turn down
collar and black necktie,) two suits of
clothes and an overcoat. three pair of boots
and shoes, one pair of slippers, one hat, one
cap one white flannel cricketing
suit and cap, flannel dressing gown,
hair brush and comb, towels, silver
spoon and fork, umbrella, sponge bag and
sufficient linen to admit of three changes
weekly. If you take the trouble to read
this, you will at once be impressed with
the prominence given to those features that
will contribute to the cultivation of Drawn
and muscle, as well as the Improvement of
the mind; their theory being that it re-
quires strong, healthy body to support a
vigorous brain, hence every encouragement
is given to field and aquatic sports. Less
than one year ago listened to a prominent
mem Der of the board of regents of one of
our state institutions, in an address to the
pupils, condemn in unmeasured terms, the
folly of wasting precious moments in the
National game of base ball. From an
American standpoint, he may have been
right, but if he had stood on British soil
and inveigled, as an officer of its educa-
tional interests, against the game Of
cricket as arecreation, and a positive b jury,
his position afterwards would have been
far from an enviable one 1t is
well known fact that the
universities of this country as well
as few of the most prominent of our own
favored land have carried the education Of
the physical means far beyond its just re-
quisites as an aid to the intellect. One of
England's greatest reformers, distinguished,
however, only as writer of fiction in that
absorbing novel of Man and Wife, though
aimed principally at the looseness of the
the marriage laws of Ireland and Scotland,
has dealt the most telling blows of any
writer of the age at the craze of muscle
over mind, of the undue prominence given
by the British educators Of the day to
athletic sports. A wholesome combination
Of the two, seems to me, imperative. In
many of our own colleges physical culture
is totally ignored, and the result is as you
must KIN ow, that at every commencement
graduates are turned out with mind cul-
tivated to grappel successfully with all
theories, both old and new, but with a
physical constitution so impaired by ex-
cessive brain work as to render them inca
pable of reapipg any advantages
gained by burning the midnight oil. The
pathway from the Aalamater to the great
beyond is strewn with the wrecks of bril-
liant intellects whose light has gone out in
darkness by reason of lack of attention
to physical culture The English schools,
colleges and universities are older than our
own; experience has taught them the lesson
too well the pitfalls of an exclusive brain